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“Muslim Advocates” and other groups slam Rep. Peter King

Rep. King to be our special guest on the premiere of the ACT! for America television program tomorrow!



Dear Harold,

The Politico story below reports that some 50 groups, led by a group called “Muslim Advocates,” “…called Rep. Pete King a modern-day Joe McCarthy…” because of his plans to hold hearings on the radicalization of Muslims.

A number of the groups that signed a letter to the House leadership are connected to the Muslim Brotherhood.

We commend Rep. King for his courageous decision to hold these hearings. The heat focused on Rep. King has been intense, and will likely increase as we get closer to the hearings.

This weekend the ACT! for America television program will premiere on Saturday at 2:30 PM ET on Family Net, and on Sunday at 4:00 PM ET on ALN. Rep. King will be our special guest. Please spread the word! If your provider does not carry either of these networks, stay tuned next week—you will be able to view the show online. Also, you can have a postcard sent to your provider asking them to carry Family Net or ALN by visiting www.supportfamilytv.com.

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February 02, 2011

Groups slam Islam hearings as modern-day McCarthyism

http://www.politico.com/blogs/glennthrush/0211/Groups_slam_Islam_hearings_as_modernday_
McCarthyism_.html

A band of civil-rights, community and faith groups called Rep. Pete King (R-N.Y.) a modern-day Joe McCarthy in

a letter to House leaders, for his plans to single out Muslims during hearings later this month on extremism which

will examine the "radicalization of Islam."

In a letter to House Speaker John Boehner and Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, the group Muslim Advocates, along with 50 groups that co-signed, demanded that King, the chair of the House Homeland Security committee, tone

down his rhetoric and hold "fair and objective" investigations that examine "all forms of violence motivated by

extremist beliefs."

"Singling out a group of Americans for government scrutiny based on their faith is divisive and wrong," the groups wrote in the letter. "These hearings will almost certainly increase widespread suspicion and mistrust of the

American Muslim community and stoke anti-Muslim sentiment."

If King zeroes in on Muslims, group leaders said in the letter dated Tuesday, he'd be following in the footsteps

of figures like former Sen. Joe McCarthy.

"That dark chapter in our history taught us that Congress has a solemn duty to wield its investigatory power responsibly," the letter states.

King, who's pushed terrorism investigations since the Sept. 11 attacks, has pointed to instances of violence by Muslim-Americans as a reason for looking into whether Muslim-Americans have been indoctrinated against the

United States. He often cites the 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, when a Muslim- American Army major shot

and killed 13 people and wounded 30 others.

But after the shooting in Arizona last month that left Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) injured and six dead, the r

anking Democrat on the panel, Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) called for King to expand his focus. The alleged shooter, Jared Lee Loughner, is not Muslim.

"Attacks are just as likely to come from lone-wolf extremists - like James Wenneker von Brunn, the Holocaust Memorial Museum shooter, or Jared Lee Loughner, who is charged with the tragedy in Tucson, Ariz. - as they

are from Muslim extremist groups," he wrote in a Politico op-ed last month.

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